Colette Moscati

Colette was a voted by SAOS visitors a finalist and a runner up for Surrey Artist of the Year 2024. She is inspired by nature’s creations and her paintings are based on her experiences of people, places, or objects that bring her joy. She is predominantly an abstract painter following her intuition to create expressive works of art in acrylics or oils. A robust paint surface is her preferred choice of substrate able to withstand techniques such as soak staining and sgraffito to achieve results that give her collectors satisfaction. She loves the challenge and mystery of abstract works. “My process often starts with no agenda other than to lay paint - this varies between soak staining to multiple rich layering using a variety of different brushes, tools, cloths and my hands. I love subtraction too, using sgraffito techniques where I scrape, gouge and sand to reveal the underlying history of my own painting process. I find painting meditative, colour delightful, composition playfully frustrating and finally rewarding! I am predominantly inspired by mother nature and believe abstract painting allows me to produce work that is simple or complex or both, just like life, but in a painted form”. Colette enjoys accepting commission work and produces artwork for licensed printing worldwide for Fine Art Producers Rosenstiels, based in London.